The supporting cast makes the most of what's available. Hackman snags some of the best lines ("There is nothing sexier than smoke billowing proudly out of a woman's hot ... red ... engorged ... nostrils"), and Liotta is particularly funny when enraged. As Hewitt's love interest, Jason Lee (Chasing Amy) manages the difficult feat of being patient, congenial, witty and wise while receiving no such qualities in return. Again, utter nonsense, but his astronomer-barman affords the story some sense of gravity. Anne Bancroft, SNL's Kevin Nealon and Tim Burton regular Jeffrey Jones also show up briefly to jerk and be jerked around.

The tone of Heartbreakers, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sigourney Weaver, is basically ballsy feminism meets Russ Meyer -- which is every bit as jarring as it sounds.